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Hot take alert!I’m not sure, but if get desperate enough then they will come for Fleck so hope Minnesota is ready to fend that off.
Hot take alert!I’m not sure, but if get desperate enough then they will come for Fleck so hope Minnesota is ready to fend that off.
LMAO.....acting as if Van Dyke was some kind of ringer QB.....he was so bad at Miami he got run out of town after his 3rd season.Enjoy your Schaudenfraude gopher fans! Fickell has been unlucky with starting QBs injured both years, Van Dyke only played the first 2 games. How would Minny have done this year if Brosmer blew out his ACL 3 snaps into game #3? Locke should not be playing Division 1 football and the whole team knows it. Most reasonable fans are willing to give him the full 4 years but he has to nail the OC hire.
Love the “Animal House” reference…Welcome Indy! This is Mohammed and jugdish and here’s Sidney and clayton.
I watched Van Dyke blow game after game at Miami. I don't think he would have been the above average QB you are suggesting.Enjoy your Schaudenfraude gopher fans! Fickell has been unlucky with starting QBs injured both years, Van Dyke only played the first 2 games. How would Minny have done this year if Brosmer blew out his ACL 3 snaps into game #3? Locke should not be playing Division 1 football and the whole team knows it. Most reasonable fans are willing to give him the full 4 years but he has to nail the OC hire.
Just average would have been a HUGE improvement. Locke is a great kid, very smart and a great teammate. He’s just not a D1 QB. Maybe he’ll be a coach someday.I watched Van Dyke blow game after game at Miami. I don't think he would have been the above average QB you are suggesting.
This is the Badger game is the most importantly. Badgers fans are a unique mix of arrogant and ignorant.Enjoy your Schaudenfraude gopher fans! Fickell has been unlucky with starting QBs injured both years, Van Dyke only played the first 2 games. How would Minny have done this year if Brosmer blew out his ACL 3 snaps into game #3? Locke should not be playing Division 1 football and the whole team knows it. Most reasonable fans are willing to give him the full 4 years but he has to nail the OC hire.
Fickle recruited solid P4 talent to a non-P4 conference and dominated. Just like Frost. Now he’s recruiting at a similar level and getting beat up in a P4 conference. Just like Frost.
He’s doing everything the same and failing because it isn’t the same.
You are waaaay underestimating the impact of having the worst QB in the B1G for the entire season and the psychological impact on 18-22 year old teammates. The gophers may have been 3-8 or worse going into the Axe game. Whatever, we will never know.This is the Badger game is the most importantly. Badgers fans are a unique mix of arrogant and ignorant.
In your hypothetical scenario where injuries don’t exist in football, do we get to imagine “what if” the Gophers were healthy last year?
To answer your question, if Brosner didn’t play today, we probably win the game 17-7. You couldn’t move the ball and we could run the ball. If both Van Dyke and Brosmer played, we probably win 24-14. So yeah, you probably still lose by 10 points at home to an average Gopher team.
Fickell will not survive another 5/6 win season. It’s 50/50 he survives a 7 win season next year.
Chryst in his last 3 seasons went 13-11 in the awful B1G West. He didn’t staff his recruiting department for almost an entire year. He needed to be shown the door.But, but, but... he runs a MODERN offense!
I've been told, repeatedly, that a MODERN offense solves all problems.
My favorite part…”You lost tot a team with a mid to upper mid Big 10 defense”. Guy might want to check his stats again on a national level. Gophers were 9th in overall defense nationally going into the game. That’s not mid to upper mid buddy. These jack wagons live off their arrogance and past. So glad they got some egg on their face. You should have enjoyed your epic times more because you certainly deserve some misery like the Gophers have experienced (I know prior to Alverez, just saying).Locked On Badgers weighs in:
Saw that and to make it worse he directed it at fans too.Fickell gave 'em the old those who stay will become champions speech today. Probably the beginning of the end.
Those guys are good dudes and know ball. I attended UW from 1983-87 so I definitely appreciated the “good ole days”. “You can’t enjoy the peaks, until you have been in the valleys”. Our younger fans are learning this now.My favorite part…”You lost tot a team with a mid to upper mid Big 10 defense”. Guy might want to check his stats again on a national level. Gophers were 9th in overall defense nationally going into the game. That’s not mid to upper mid buddy. These jack wagons live off their arrogance and past. So glad they got some egg on their face. You should have enjoyed your epic times more because you certainly deserve some misery like the Gophers have experienced (I know prior to Alverez, just saying).
Thanks for posting. The host is clearly frustrated (as I would be), but not ranting and raving.Locked On Badgers weighs in:
If Wisconsin played in the American they’d probably be like 10-2 right now though…..Fickle recruited solid P4 talent to a non-P4 conference and dominated. Just like Frost. Now he’s recruiting at a similar level and getting beat up in a P4 conference. Just like Frost.
He’s doing everything the same and failing because it isn’t the same.
If Wisconsin played in the American they’d probably be like 10-2 right now though…..
I feel your pain but, I think the Iowa qb situation is arguably worse.You are waaaay underestimating the impact of having the worst QB in the B1G for the entire season and the psychological impact on 18-22 year old teammates. The gophers may have been 3-8 or worse going into the Axe game. Whatever, we will never know.
Agree. But Iowa has Kaleb Johnson and a Phil Parker coached D with NFL dudesI feel your pain but, I think the Iowa qb situation is arguably worse.
Agree. But Iowa has Kaleb Johnson and a Phil Parker coached D with NFL dudes
If “ifs and buts were candy and nuts” Stuck in Indy would be king of the world…. Best arm chair quarterback and after the fact football genius ever. And unlike the average Badger fan, he MAY have actually attended UW….Those guys are good dudes and know ball. I attended UW from 1983-87 so I definitely appreciated the “good ole days”. “You can’t enjoy the peaks, until you have been in the valleys”. Our younger fans are learning this now.
You’re Luke Fickell?Madison fam described him as flippant and glib.
Oh, bosh!You’re Luke Fickell?
Fickell gets one more year. With brutal schedule ahead, he will be gone. BadgerNation is down. Fickell not a good fit.Iowa - L 42-10
Nebraska - L 44-25
Minnesota - L 24-7 (really good change they get shut out without that personal foul)
They went Air Raid and then fired the guy. Now what? He's not "in trouble" now but will have laser focus towards him once the OC decision is made. He needs to win 9+ next year or show some serious progress. Beat 1 or 2 of the front-runners would help. Never thought this was his ultimate destination though.....I wonder if their fanbase has the patience for that considering their history of predictable success?
Wisconsin is in transition. Fickell has brought in 14 4* players in his first two classes. Fleck has brought in 5 4* players.Fickle recruited solid P4 talent to a non-P4 conference and dominated. Just like Frost. Now he’s recruiting at a similar level and getting beat up in a P4 conference. Just like Frost.
He’s doing everything the same and failing because it isn’t the same.
No alert needed, hottest of hot takesHot take alert!
10th in scoring defense in the country. Doesn't sound pretty weak to me.Iowa's D was pretty weak this season. Easily their worst in a decade and probably the worst since Phil Parker took over at DC.
Injury bug and an offense in transition. I think singing their demise is premature.Wisconsin has a lot of problems right now. It’s not going to get significantly better next year for them.
The level to which their fans are already out of patience is stunning. It’s hard to find a sympathetic take out there at all.